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What 3 things would you do to help a teacher improve?

Dec 03, 2013 | Category: training

If there was no OfSTED, no league tables, no SLT... just you and your class. What would you choose to do to make it GREAT?Do that anyway...Tom SherringtonEvery teacher needs to improve. Not because th...

#Ofsted #Zoe Elder #coaching #Dylan Wiliam #Tom Sherrington #Dan Heath

Planning Lessons - lessons I’ve learned from lessons I've taught

Jun 09, 2013 | Category: Featured

This is a summary and a drawing together of several earlier posts. I consider it a refinement of my thinking and something which is painstakingly (and grandiosely) groping its way towards a total phil...

#Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #Pareto #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #DIRT

Icebergs, taking risks & being outstanding

Feb 11, 2013 | Category: Featured

How do we recognise a great teacher, a great lesson or great teaching and learning? How do we know what we're seeing is outstanding?The sad truth is that often observers don't (or can't) see the wood...

#risks #failure #Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #Sir Michael Wilshaw #learning loop #icebergs #Outstanding teaching & learning #Thomas Edison

Building challenge: differentiation that's quick and works

Jan 19, 2013 | Category: English

UPDATE: These two posts represent my latest think on differentiation: Is differentiation a zero-sum game? April 2015Why do we overestimate the importance of differences? November 2014Since having a go...

#Zoe Elder #Darren Mead #differentiation #Jim Smith #Lesson planning #6 degrees of separation #Before before after after #comparison alley #Lisa Jane Ashes

Outstanding teaching & learning: missed opportunities and marginal gains

Oct 14, 2012 | Category: learning

I work at an 'outstanding' school where the teaching and learning is 'good'. As such we are squarely in Wilshaw's sights and almost certainly due an inspection at some point this year. We were last in...

#Ofsted #Zoe Elder #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Dave Brailsford #marginal gains

So, what are learning spies?

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: learning

A few years ago an Ofsted inspector told me I talked too much and that as a result the lesson that had been observed was 'satisfactory'. I was gutted. I was also determined to do something about it.Th...

#learning #critical skills #observers #roles #spies #Zoe Elder